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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2024

Interscapular Pain after Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: Does Zygapophyseal Joints over Distraction Play a Role?

Luca Ricciardi, Daniele Bongetta, Amedeo Piazza, Nicolò Norri, Antonella Mangraviti, Sokol Trungu, Evaristo Belli, Luca Zanin, Giorgio Lofrese

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Effects of excessive distraction during anterior cervical spine surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcomes, radiological changes, and complications.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Luca RicciardiUOC di Neurochirurgia, AOU Sant'Andrea, Dipartimento NESMOS, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5110-8386
Daniele BongettaSC Neurochirurgia, Ospedale Fatebenefratelli e Oftalmico, 20121 Milan, Italy.
Amedeo PiazzaUOC di Neurochirurgia, AOU Sant'Andrea, Dipartimento NESMOS, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5360-5810
Nicolò NorriUOC di Neurochirurgia, AOU Sant'Andrea, Dipartimento NESMOS, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8962-2591
Antonella MangravitiUOC di Neurochirurgia, AOU Sant'Andrea, Dipartimento NESMOS, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy.
Sokol TrunguUOC di Neurochirurgia, AOU Sant'Andrea, Dipartimento NESMOS, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5087-6006
Evaristo BelliUO di Chirurgia Maxillo-Facciale, AOU Sant'Andrea, Dipartimento NESMOS, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy.
Luca ZaninNeurosurgery Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, 25121 Brescia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1761-7202
Giorgio LofreseUOC di Neurochirurgia, Ospedale Bufalini di Cesena, 47521 Cesena, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5874-7340

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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ACDFcervicalgiacervical spinecomplicationsdisc herniationmyelopathypost-operative painprosthesisrehabilitation

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PMID38792516
PMCPMC11122480

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